Word: contention
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Readers not familiar with Sinyavsky's style or the content of his life may have difficulty with the half-submerged facts. He was born into an affluent family in 1925. His father, who appears in the book as a brilliant though ineffectual figure out of a Chekhov play, was a revolutionary but not a Bolshevik. He was individualistic and something of an eccentric pragmatist. While waiting to be drafted during World War I, he practiced writing with his left hand in case he lost his right...
...this is a problem. To The Crimson, the real world is not terribly important. Most Crimson reporters are content to stay within the fantasy-land of Harvard Square. Why bother to get the facts straight? It's all a game, and writing articles is an educational diversion for amateur journalists. So what if you end up creating news instead of reporting...
Despite these challenges, Bush is still buoyed by an element of good fortune. Gorbachev seems content to let the President move at his own pace. The Soviets and NATO allies support a stabilizing U.S. presence in Europe. And a gradually reduced Soviet threat may enable Bush to squeeze just enough money from the military next year to keep the federal deficit moving downward. Bush recognizes that he is the benefactor of a rare alignment of stars. "I'm a lucky person to be President of our country in these very exciting times," he said last week. But as the ground...
DINNER AT EIGHT (TNT, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST). Ted Turner isn't content with resurrecting old MGM classics on his newest cable channel; he is remaking them as well. Lauren Bacall, Ellen Greene and Harry Hamlin dine at the table where Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow and John Barrymore once...
...surprisingly, an industry has sprung up in the past few years to counsel lawyers who are less than content with their situation. "We might as well have a sign over our door that reads, 'Some of the most unhappy souls in the world come through these portals,' " says Larry Richard, president of Lawgistics, a Philadelphia career-counseling firm for attorneys. "I see lawyers who range from merely curious about their alternatives to those who are seriously depressed and even suicidal." Branches of Lawyers in Transition, a support group that offers seminars and workshops for attorneys who are looking...